Loss of cerebral white matter structural integrity tracks the gray matter metabolic decline in normal aging

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-28

  Kochunov, P ^a   Ramage, A E ^a   Lancaster, J L ^a   Robin, D A ^a   Narayana, S ^a   Coyle, T ^b   Royall, D R ^c   Fox, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 60349102573     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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